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Wednesday, June 6, 2007

Canberra - Lake Burley Griffin 3/6/07


It is late so will keep this short and sweet,

Another freezing morning in the National Capital with the temperature around 0 degrees overnight which made for a slow late start to the day, the colder it gets the more my injuries from teenage life come back to haunt me, they say you can feel it in your bones and my back, knees, wrist and teeth ached from the moment my eyes opened... Had a dream about meeting the others at Googong and catching a monster Murray Cod ( Yes I know Funda, dream a little dream ) but could not drag myself out of bed to hassle Claire for a lift across the border.

Got up and watched some TV and felt slightly depressed when I learned the Socceroos lost 2 - 1 overnight but Claire lifted my spirits mentioning she wanted to visit her sister in a suburb just on the other side of lake Burley Griffin, before she had dried and straightened her hair the car was packed and I was honking the horn and screaming LETS GO!

Launched from Yarralumla Bay around 11am in pristine conditions with the whole lake to myself, headed over opposite the boat ramp dragging an assortment of lures on the way through and past Redfin Land for not much apart from the dreaded weedy monster, chucked on a Chatterbait I purchased on Saturday ( Yes I know Funda, Chatterbaits suck right? ) in search of anything that wanted to play pin the mouth on the lure, interesting action and enjoyable to cast.

Wind picked up around 1pm and water temp was stuck on 13 degrees solid, got a little wet paddling here so turned around and followed one of my previous GPS breadcrumbs from trips gone by back around Black Mountain Peninsula in hope of encountering the English defending the fortress, in 20 minutes drifting at 2.8kph I managed 3 English Perch ranging from the smallest at 29cm to the bigger model around 36cm ( With a 33cm fish in the middle ), all fish were taken on my fave reddie lure... The infamous silver and red striped Viking Talisman.

Tried to head behind the islands were Granpop has done so well before but the wind was getting stronger, rather than risk catching a cold I rang Claire and instructed her to pick me up at the launch point ( Ok so I begged her to come, it was freezing! ), all in all im glad I managed a few fish considering the conditions and think I may still be able to drag some fish ( Kicking and screaming ) from the cold, especially when its competition period time and I cant get to the Coast.